Welcome to the Elgin Coin Club Home Page

The Elgin Coin Club (ECC) is a group of collectors
mainly from the Elgin, Illinois, area. Join us the first Wednesday of any month at 7pm at our meeting in the Elgin Moose Family Center. (Map and details).

We have two coin shows in Elgin every year in March and October. 2014's shows are on April 27 and October 26. Click here for details.

This is the Elgin Coin Club members at the December 2014 Christmas party.

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Our Meetings

We meet monthly at 7:00 pm on the first Wednesday
of every month. We meet at the the Elgin Moose Family Center.
at 925 South McLean Blvd., Elgin, IL.

Visitors are always welcome.

Our Elgin Coin Club meetings offer many opportunities to enjoy our hobby and share it with others. Some of our activities include:

Good talking with fellow collectors

Show & Tell of all manner of coins

Videos on many numismatic subjects

Guest speakers talking about their specialties

Raffles with many prizes

Special 50/50 cash raffle (half to winner half to club)

Member bourse sales

Two annual auctions of member coins

Two annual White Elephant auctions

An annual holiday dinner.

Board Meeting

We have a monthly board meeting about two weeks after the regular meeting. The officers get together at an officer's or a board member's house or at a location otherwise determined by the officers. This is an open meeting. Members are welcome to all board meetings. If you want to attend, contact an officer for the time of and directions to the meeting place.

Elgin Coin Club Annual Coin Shows

Each year we have two coin shows, one is the Spring in March or April and the other the fall in October. 2015's shows are Sunday, March 29 and Sunday, October 25--plan to join us.
The shows run from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. They are a lot fun with many activities including, but surely not limited to:

Free admission

U.S. and foreign coins and currency, gold, silver, copper, along with other numismatic items bought and sold

Free prizes for all young collectors

Youth (YN) auction (October only)

Free coin grading & appraisal

Free door prizes every half hour

Buy, sell, and trade at around 34 browse tables.

The show is in the same place as our monthly meetings, so the map above tells you just where to go.

We look forward to seeing all of you and your friends at one or both of this year's shows!

For more information about the show, contact our show chairman Don Cerny at 847-888-1449 or club President Dave Starling at (847) 809-9603.

Associations

Membership Dues

Membership dues in the Elgin Coin Club, payable by the end of
February each year, are:

$15 full member

$5 junior member (YNs) under 18

$20 family membership (adults and children).

Joining ECC

To become a member, you have attend two meetings. At the first meeting you can apply for membership and at the second we welcome you into the club when there is no opposition to your joining. If you already know a member, you can join the first night.

ECC History

The first Elgin Coin Club meeting was in September, 1957. That means that we have endured the full length of the Space race. Sputnik went up in October, 1957, a month after we started. The Memorial Lincoln cent debuted two years after we started. We have been around for more than one fifth of the time the United States has existed!

ECC Exonumia

During its history, the Elgin Coin Club has issued tokens and other exonumia. we currently have accounted for these:

We issued a 1976 bicentennial 50-cent, aluminum, "good-for" token redeemable at the Elgin American Legion.

We issued rolled coins in 1990. Some were done on 1990 cents, the year of issue, and others on 1957 cents, the year the club started. We have also found three made from Polish 5 Zlotich coins.

We issued several wooden nickels. One celebrates the 12th annual Elgin Coin Club show on September 29, 1974. Another generic one probably was issued around the same time. Yet another was issued for the 40th Annual Coin Show in 2002.

When the Elgin Coin Club celebrated its 500th meeting on August 4, 1999, each person at the meeting received a souvenir bill honoring the meeting and good for one dollar towards club dues. The bill included pictures and signatures of the officers and a picture of all members present at the April, 1999, meeting. Read nore about this souvenir bill.

During our 40th Annual Coin Show we issued notes "Good For" one dollar in trade at dealers at the show.

Some Other Facts

Many other clubs have came and gone in the length of our history. McHenry County Coin Club was around when we started, but it closed its doors in the mid-'90s. A set of wooden nickels were issued in 1965 for the Greater DuPage Coin Festival by five area clubs: Tree Town's CC, DuPage CC, West Suburban CC, Wheaton CC, and Westmont CC. None exist today.

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